Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. For yokels: It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible, All we want is a packet of fags* when our hands are idle...
...kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi?--well anyhow it made no difference, when he was escorting one of the young ladies home whom he had met on a "most delightful party, yes, indeed, a most delightful party...
...street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast...
...Taxi...
...Joliet, Ill., Taxidriver Guy Tremper picked up a fare who asked to be shown the bright lights. After $40 worth of sightseeing, the fare jumped from the taxi, disappeared. At police headquarters' rogues' gallery, Driver Tremper identified his fare as one Floyd Earl, who was known to have only $10 because he had that day been released from Stateville prison after serving eleven years for burglary...